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“In every universe, it’s you for me. Even if it’s not me for you.�

“To this day I never know which version of myself I’m going to wake up to. It can happen that the smallest chores or decisions—brushing my teeth, hanging up a towel, should I have tea or coffee—overwhelm me. Sometimes I find the best way to get through the day is by setting myself tiny, achievable goals that take me from one minute to the next. If you sometimes feel like that, you are not alone, and I urge you to talk about it to someone. It’s easy to bask in the sun, not so easy to enjoy the rain. But one can’t exist without the other. The weather always changes. Feelings of sadness and happiness deserve equal mental screen time.”
― Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
― Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
“It surprises some people that I’ve never re-read the Harry Potter books, or even watched the films in their entirety apart from at the premieres. From time to time I’ve been in front of the TV with some friends and one of the movies has come on, prompting the obligatory piss-taking of “Harry Potter Wankerâ€� and “Broomstick Prick.â€� But I’ve never sat down on purpose to watch them, beginning to end. It’s nothing to do with a lack of pride. Quite the opposite. It’s because I’m saving them for the moment that I look forward to most in my future: one day sharing these stories—books first, then the films—with my own little Muggles.”
― Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
― Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
“something that will always remain with me. ‘I’ve always known I was a duck,â€� she said, ‘but I’ve spent my whole life being told I was a chicken. Every time I try to say “quackâ€� the world tells me that I have to say “cluckâ€�. I even started believing that I was a chicken and not a duck. Then we started hanging out and I found somebody else who quacked. And that’s when I thought: To hell with them, I really am a duck!”
― Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
― Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard

“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”
― Lord of the Flies
― Lord of the Flies
“I’ve always had a secret love for Emma, though not perhaps in the way that people might want to hear. That isn’t to say there’s never been a spark between us. There most definitely has, only at different times.”
― Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
― Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard

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